The Hydraulics Lab is filling up… we now have most instruments in place…only some have made it out of their shipping crates.

The green algae (Duneliella tertiolecta, Nov 5) preferred to stay at the surface of the water in the wave tank.

Prof. Francesco Paesani (at right) discusses the intersection of this experiment with his work within CAICE: molecular dynamics simulations of reactions at aerosol interfaces.

Sunset overlooking the Scripps Pier at SIO.

Oct 28: Scientists are now arriving from around the world for the setup stage.

Postdoctoral researcher Defeng Zhao has been working long nights performing the first analyses of our sea spray samples by SEM and raman microscopy.

Paul DeMott (Colorado State) hopes to see interesting changes in the ability of biologically-enhanced sea spray particles to act as ice crystal nuclei, which is important to cloud and precipitation processes.

CAICE grad students and postdocs chatted with Prof. Gil Nathanson (UW-Madison) over lunch before his invited chemistry department seminar.

Oct 28: CAICE investigators and collaborators become re-acquainted and discuss the current status.

Green algae (Duneliella tertiolecta), which has grown to impressive cell density, awaits its turn in the ocean-atmosphere chamber.

A breaking wave in the ocean-atmosphere chamber using the focused-wave packet mode.